Fri, Apr 25, 2003, 12:00am
As director Andrei Konchalovsky probably knows, mental institutions make for great films: they are full of colorful characters and provide a starting point for a wealth of metaphors and allegorical details that can be comprehended by the dimmest moviegoer (or filmmaker, for that matter).
Fri, Apr 25, 2003, 12:00am
Judging by aesthetics alone, Wilco could not look any less appealing. Four casually-dressed 30-somethings with unkempt hair and three-day facial outgrowth do not exactly fit the pop star mold. Even when listening to their music, one is not particularly eager to meet the men who created it.
Fri, Apr 25, 2003, 12:00am
Over the past few months, affirmative action has been the subject of endless debates, discussions, and speeches on this campus as University President Lee Bollinger prepared to take his case to the Supreme Court.
Fri, Apr 25, 2003, 12:00am
When the University Senate concludes its 2002-2003 term today, it will do so without reaching a decision on the most controversial, and perhaps most important, issue facing the body this year: the approval of a doctorate in nursing practice.
Fri, Apr 25, 2003, 12:00am
As of next semester, Logic & Rhetoric, the introductory writing seminar required of all incoming Columbia College, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, and General Studies students, will no longer exist.
Fri, Apr 25, 2003, 12:00am
When Barnard College Student Health Services created the Well-Woman Program 10 years ago, it consisted of only four peer education groups.
Fri, Apr 25, 2003, 12:00am
There is something unfair about watching a beautiful spring day, brimming with sunshine and frost-white skin, fly past you like a Frisbee as you sit in the library eking out a final paper. It is equally depressing if that sort of spring day never comes.
Fri, Apr 25, 2003, 12:00am
The track team sent some of its best runners to Penn this weekend to join thousands of other competitors at the Penn Relays, one of the biggest annual track meets.
Fri, Apr 25, 2003, 12:00am
A junior theater editor who shall go unnamed casually told me yesterday that for a while, she'd been intensely sick with fullblown SARS symptoms, but was now getting better.
Fri, Apr 25, 2003, 12:00am
No matter how tightly you cross your fingers, no matter how hard you rub your rabbit's foot, no matter how perfectly you nail up your horseshoe, the baseball team's luck has run out.
